These recommendationsinclude 10 operational and policy recommendations and 7 cross-cutting recommendations on the overall policy framework, data and funding. They have been drafted and endorsed together with over 45 child rights organisations.

In 2016, one in four people currently seeking asylum in the EU were children. The Lost in Migration event organised by Missing Children Europe will bring together EU Policy makers, child protection and migration experts and previously unaccompanied children to work on recommendations for children in migration.

Ahead of the 10th European Forum on the Rights of the Child, which focuses this year on protecting children in migration, 78 organisations, including Missing Children Europe, signed a statement calling for better protection for all children in Europe.

We invite you to contribute to our blog on the situation, challenges, stories and support of children who come to Europe in the context of migration. This blog is part of the “Lost in migration conference organised in Malta on the 26-27 Jan 2017

Missing Children Europe will join hands with the President’s Foundation for the Wellbeing of Societyto take stock of the situation and develop forward looking proposals for the protection of children in migration. Call for proposals of sessions now open!

Since 2005, the Brussels IIa Regulation has been one of the most important judicial instruments used in cases of international child abduction. Ten years after the Regulation entered into application, the European Commission is presenting a set of amendments to this Regulation.

Missing Children Europe has launched a child-friendly app to help kids memorise their parents’ phone number by changing the unlocking code of their smartphone or tablet to their parents’ phone number. Remumber: www.remumber.com

Missing Children Europe calls for institutions and Member States to build on what we have learned from the evidence collected over the last months and years. The current system is failing to protect and empower unaccompanied children, exposes children to danger and strengthens criminal organisations.